SCIT/SDWG/10/6 (in English) - WIPO



ANNEX

SURVEY OF PRACTICES IN INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY OFFICES

REGARDING CODES USED FOR INTERNAL PURPOSES OR INDIVIDUAL USE

Survey for presentation to the SCIT Standards and Documentation Working Group

at its tenth session in November 2008

Introduction

The Standards and Documentation Working Group (SDWG), at its eighth session, held in March 2007, requested the International Bureau (IB) to undertake a survey on the codes regarding patents, trademarks and industrial designs, which are normally used by Industrial Property Offices (IPOs) for internal purposes or individual use. The intention of the survey was not to collect all of the codes that offices use, but only those codes that could be of interest to the users of industrial property information (see paragraph 36 of document SCIT/SDWG/8/14).

The use of codes is a convenient method of presenting and easily understanding an element of information in a precise, shortened and uniform way. The use of codes is also useful for distinguishing different elements of information, as well as for improving data processing and access to information. IPOs very often use codes to identify some elements of industrial property information in their official publications, documents, records, databases, etc. Users of industrial property information may sometimes encounter difficulties in identifying the meaning of the codes. In order to overcome most of these difficulties, WIPO has developed recommendations providing the definitions for a number of codes which are widely used in the field of industrial property information and documentation. There are, however, also codes regarding patents, trademarks and industrial designs that have been developed by IPOs for internal purposes or individual use.

WIPO Standard ST.9 provides the list and definitions of numerical codes allotted to bibliographic data relating to patents, the so-called “INID Codes” or “INID Numbers” (“INID” is an acronym for “Internationally agreed Numbers for the Identification of (bibliographic) Data”). WIPO Standards ST.60 and ST.80 cover the lists of INID codes developed for the identification of bibliographic data relating to trademarks and industrial designs, respectively. By these INID codes, it is possible to identify the various data usually printed on the first pages of industrial property documents and certificates, and published in official gazettes, without actual knowledge of the language used and the laws, conventions or treaties applied. WIPO Standard ST.3 recommends the use of the so-called “two-letter country or organization codes”. WIPO Standard ST.16 recommends the letter codes and numerical codes that should be applied for the identification of the different kind of patent documents published by IPOs; moreover, Part 7.3 of the WIPO Handbook on Industrial Property Information and Documentation (WIPO Handbook) provides examples of different kinds of patent documents and their corresponding WIPO Standard ST.16 kind-of-document codes published by IPOs.

This survey was prepared on the basis of the replies by IPOs to a questionnaire that was distributed along with Circular SCIT 2644 in November 2007. The circular, the questionnaire and the responses received by the IB are available on WIPO’s website at: .

Survey Results

The following 27 Offices responded to the survey:

|Armenia (AM), |Georgia (GE), |Serbia (RS), |

|Austria (AT), |Hungary (HU), |Slovakia (SK), |

|Belgium (BE), |Kazakhstan (KZ), |Thailand (TH), |

|Bulgaria (BG), |Monaco (MC), |United Republic of Tanzania (TZ), |

|Canada (CA), |Republic of Moldova (MD), |Ukraine (UA), |

|China (CN), |Mexico (MX), |United States of America (US), |

|Czech Republic (CZ), |Malaysia (MY), |World Intellectual Property Organization |

|Germany (DE), |Netherlands (NL), |(International Bureau of) (WO/IB). |

|Estonia (EE), |Poland (PL), | |

|European Patent Office (EP), |Russian Federation (RU), | |

Of the 27 responding Offices, eight Offices (AM, BG, CN, KZ, MC, MY, NL and TH) reported that they do not have codes for internal purposes or individual use.

Eighteen Offices (AT, BE, CZ, DE, EE, EP, GE, HU, MD, MX, PL, RS, RU, SK, TZ, UA, US and WO/IB) provided information regarding patents; 16 Offices (AT, CA, CZ, DE, EE, GE, HU, MD, PL, RS, RU, SK, TZ, UA, US and WO/IB) regarding trademarks and 13 Offices (AT, CZ, DE, EE, GE, MD, MX, PL, RS, RU, SK, UA and WO/IB) regarding industrial designs.

The survey presents the responses collated in three tables, for patents, trademarks and industrial designs respectively. In these tables, the “External exposure” column indicates whether the corresponding code has been exposed to the industrial property community in external publications and/or fora. If the answer to the “External exposure” question is “Yes”, the “Publications/Fora” column states in which publications and/or fora the code has been exposed to the industrial property community.

Whenever it was possible to find the information provided by the IPOs in WIPO Standards ST.3, ST.9, ST.16, ST.60, ST.80 and Part 7.3 of the WIPO Handbook, this information was not included in the tables.

The RU Office reported the publication, along with the bibliographic data, of some specific entries which are presented using plain language, but no code is used for their representation. This information is also included in the survey.

TABLE I – PATENTS

|Country/ |Code |

|Organization | |

|AT |A |

|CA |No codes (for internal purposes or individual use) provided by CA |

|CN |No codes (for internal purposes or individual use) provided by CN |

|CZ |PV |

|KZ |No codes (for internal purposes or individual use) provided by KZ |

|MC |No codes (for internal purposes or individual use) provided by MC |

|MD |(10)* |

|NL |No codes (for internal purposes or individual use) provided by NL |

|PL |IN |

|TZ |440321- 050821 |

|AT |AM |

|CA |A1 |

|CZ |O |

|MC |No codes (for internal purposes or individual use) provided by MC |

|MD |(300)* |

|MY |No codes (for internal purposes or individual use) provided by MY |

|NL |No codes (for internal purposes or individual use) provided by NL |

|PL |TMN |

|TZ |440322- 050821 |

|AT |MU |

|CA |No codes (for internal purposes or individual use) provided by CA |

|CN |No codes (for internal purposes or individual use) provided by CN |

|CZ |PVZ |

|KZ |No codes (for internal purposes or individual use) provided by KZ |

|MC |No codes (for internal purposes or individual use) provided by MC |

|MD |(30)* |

|NL |No codes (for internal purposes or individual use) provided by NL |

|PL |PRZ |

|TZ |No codes (for internal purposes or individual use) provided by TH |

UA |A1 |UA Office |  |Identification of author’s certificate in the USSR title of protection number format (e.g., A1 17854) |Yes |Patent documentation of Ukraine and relevant databases |1993 to 1997-01 |It was used for identification of the former USSR author’s certificates re-registered to become patents of Ukraine | |UA |A3 |UA Office |  |Identification of the USSR patent in the USSR title of protection number format (e.g., A3 33797) |Yes |Patent documentation of Ukraine and relevant databases |1993 to 1996-01 |It was used for identification of the former USSR patents re-registered to become patents of Ukraine | |UA |s |UA Office |ST.13 |Designation of the industrial property right type / Used for identification of applications for industrial designs

(e.g., s 200600500) |Yes |Patent documentation of Ukraine and relevant databases |2005 to present |Indicated in application for industrial design number format | |WO/IB |DCR |WO/IB | |Creator registration |Yes |International Designs Bulletin |2004-04 to present |Hague System | |WO/IB |DEN |WO/IB | |Industrial design application |Yes |International Designs Bulletin |2004-04 to present |Hague System | |WO/IB |DFU |WO/IB | |Industrial design fusion |Yes |International Designs Bulletin |2004-04 to present |Hague System | |WO/IB |DGP |WO/IB | |Grant of protection |Yes |International Designs Bulletin |2004-04 to present |Hague System | |WO/IB |DIN |WO/IB | |Invalidation |Yes |International Designs Bulletin |2004-04 to present |Hague System | |WO/IB |DIV |WO/IB | |Division |Yes |International Designs Bulletin |2004-04 to present |Hague System | |WO/IB |DLI |WO/IB | |Limitation |Yes |International Designs Bulletin |2004-04 to present |Hague System | |WO/IB |DMA |WO/IB | |Appointment of representative |Yes |International Designs Bulletin |2004-04 to present |Hague System. | |WO/IB |DMB |WO/IB | |Representative renunciation |Yes |International Designs Bulletin |2004-04 to present |Hague System | |WO/IB |DMC |WO/IB | |Representative name change |Yes |International Designs Bulletin |2004-04 to present |Hague System | |WO/IB |DMT |WO/IB | |Holder name change |Yes |International Designs Bulletin |2004-04 to present |Hague System | |WO/IB |DOD |WO/IB | |Opening of sealed deposit |Yes |International Designs Bulletin |2004-04 to present |Hague System | |WO/IB |DPR |WO/IB | |Prolongation (renewal) |Yes |International Designs Bulletin |2004-04 to present |Hague System | |WO/IB |DRC |WO/IB | |Complementary renewal |Yes |International Designs Bulletin |2004-04 to present |Hague System | |WO/IB |DRE |WO/IB | |Renewal |Yes |International Designs Bulletin |2004-04 to present |Hague System | |WO/IB |DRF |WO/IB | |Refusal |Yes |International Designs Bulletin |2004-04 to present |Hague System | |WO/IB |DRI |WO/IB | |Corrections |Yes |International Designs Bulletin |2004-04 to present |Hague System | |WO/IB |DRL |WO/IB | |Refusal of protection |Yes |International Designs Bulletin |2004-04 to present |Hague System | |WO/IB |DRN |WO/IB | |Renunciation of deposit |Yes |International Designs Bulletin |2004-04 to present |Hague System | |WO/IB |DRP |WO/IB | |Partial withdrawal |Yes |International Designs Bulletin |2004-04 to present |Hague System | |WO/IB |DRT |WO/IB | |Industrial design total withdrawal |Yes |International Designs Bulletin |2004-04 to present |Hague System | |WO/IB |DTP |WO/IB | |Termination of protection |Yes |International Designs Bulletin |2004-04 to present |Hague System | |WO/IB |DTR |WO/IB | |Change in ownership |Yes |International Designs Bulletin |2004-04 to present |Hague System | |WO/IB |DWR |WO/IB | |Withdrawal of refusal |Yes |International Designs Bulletin |2004-04 to present |Hague System | |WO/IB |D34 |WO/IB | |1934 deposit |Yes |International Designs Bulletin |2004-04 to present |Hague System | |WO/IB |D60 |WO/IB | |1960 deposit |Yes |International Designs Bulletin |2004-04 to 2005 |Hague System, replaced by Industrial design application | |

[End of Annex and of document]

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[1] Rospatent grants patents for industrial designs and follows WIPO Standard ST.80 to identify the corresponding data; certain codes provided by WIPO Standard ST.9 are also used, e.g., (13) for the kind-of-document code.

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